Jenny de Fine Licht
Deputy Head of Department
School of PublicAbout Jenny de Fine Licht
Presentation
PhD in Political Science and Associate Professor in Public Administration. Deputy Head of Department at the School of Public Administration.
Research interests
Transparency/openness in decision-making, legitimacy and trust, auditing.
Current research
I am currently involved in three research projects:
- "Justifying hard decisions - a necessary evil in representative decision making."
- "The challenge of localizing public services – equal access to public services and democratic governance in the whole of Sweden."
- "Misconduct and Whistleblowing in Political Parties."
-
Sink or swim? The politics of prioritizing public service
provision
Jenny De Fine Licht, Louise Skoog
Paper prepared for the panel “Local Government as a Service Provider”, ECPR General Conference, Charles University Prague, 4-8 September 2023 - 2023 -
Här, där eller överallt? Medborgares åsikter om lokalisering av offentlig
service,
Jenny De Fine Licht, David Karlsson, Louise Skoog
Kapitel i Ulrika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, Anders Carlander, Johan Martinsson & Nora Theorin (red) Ovisshetens tid. Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet. - 2023 -
Här, där eller överallt? –
Tabellbilaga
Jenny De Fine Licht, David Karlsson, Louise Skoog
Bilaga till kapitlet de Fine Licht, Karlsson & Skoog (2023): "Här, där eller överallt? Medborgares åsikter om lokalisering av offentlig service". I Ulrika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, Anders Carlander, Johan Martinsson & Nora Theorin (red) "Ovisshetens tid". Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet. - 2023 -
Att hantera svåra beslut - ett nödvändigt ont i den representativa
demokratin.
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson
I: Bo Per Larsson (red.) Hot mot det demokratiska samtalet. Forskarantologi. Sveriges kommuner och regioner. - 2023 -
Närhet eller effektivitet – en kommunal
utmaning
Jenny De Fine Licht, David Karlsson, Louise Skoog
Kommunal Ekonomi - 2023 -
Beyond auditor and auditee: exploring the governance of performance in
eldercare
Emma Ek Österberg, Jenny De Fine Licht
Public Management Review - 2023 -
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical
Legitimacy
Jenny De Fine Licht, Mattias Agerberg, Peter Esaiasson
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory - 2022 -
Transparency
Jenny De Fine Licht, Daniel Naurin
Handbook on Theories of Governance, edited by Christoffer Ansell and Jacob Torfing - 2022 -
Collaborative Gaming: When Principals and Agents Agree to Game the
System
Jon Pierre, Jenny De Fine Licht
Public Administration - 2021 -
When Interests Collide – Politicians’ Perceptions of Hard
Decisions
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson
Paper presented at the workshop “Improving on perfection? Democratic innovations in Nordic democracies” at the 2021 Congress of the Nordic Political Science Association (digital), and at the panel ”Destructive or Deliberative? Deliberation among the Political Elite” at the ECPR conference 2021 (digital). - 2021 -
När kommunen sagt sitt: Efterprocessen vid kommunal
vindkraftsetablering
Rebecka Berg , Jenny De Fine Licht
2021 -
Ledarskap i offentlighet – allt kommer att granskas, av Jörgen Rundgren och Karin
Semberg.
Jenny De Fine Licht
Organisation och Samhälle - 2021 -
Lights on the shadows of public procurement. Transparency as an antidote to
corruption
Monika Bauhr, Agnes Czibik, Jenny De Fine Licht, Mihaly Fazekas
Governance - 2020 -
Handling Hard
Decisions
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson
Paper presented at the Nordic Municipal Research Conference, November 26-28, 2020 - 2020 -
Artificial intelligence, transparency, and public decision-making Why explanations are key when trying to produce perceived
legitimacy
K. D. Licht, Jenny De Fine Licht
Ai & Society - 2020 -
Kvantitativa
sekundärdata.
Jenny De Fine Licht
Andra hjälpen: allt du behöver veta för att skriva en uppsats. Abrahamson Löfström, C., och Rombach, B. (red.) - 2020 -
The Janus face of transparency: balancing openness and secrecy in democratic
decison-making
Jenny De Fine Licht
Transparency and secrecy in European democracies: contested trade-offs, edited by Dorota Mokrosinska - 2020 -
Auditing and
Accountability
Jenny De Fine Licht
Encyclopedia of Public Administration - 2020 -
Styrning genom återrapporteringskrav och en ständigt återkommande detaljreglering inom
Arbetsförmedlingen
Jenny De Fine Licht, Jon Pierre
Granskningssamhället: offentliga verksamheter under lupp - 2019 -
Representation as a Continuous Game -- Exploring the role of post-decision procedural arrangements for public acceptance of hard
decisions
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson, Mattias Agerberg
The Annual ECPR General Conference, Wrozlaw, Poland - 2019 -
Making sense of audit. Enacting the audit trail logic in
eldercare.
Emma Ek Österberg, Jenny De Fine Licht
New Public Sector Seminar - 2019 -
Representation as a Continuous Game: Exploring the role of post-decision procedural arrangements
for public acceptance of hard
decisions
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson, Mattias Agerberg
Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference in Wroclaw 4-7 September 2019 - 2019 -
Preparing political science students for a non-academic career: Experiences from a novel course
module
Rasmus Broms, Jenny De Fine Licht
Politics - 2019 -
The Role of Transparency in
Auditing
Jenny De Fine Licht
Financial Accountability & Management - 2019 -
Influence as the key to consent? Swedish director generals’ perceptions of reporting
requirements
Jenny De Fine Licht, Jon Pierre
International Journal of Public Sector Management - 2019 -
När beslutet fattats – en studie av kommuners hantering av
skolnedläggningar
Petra Fogelholm , Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson
2019 -
How do supreme audit institutions manage their autonomy and impact? A comparative
analysis
Jon Pierre, Jenny De Fine Licht
Journal of European Public Policy - 2019 -
Förbättrings- och värdegrundsarbete i hälso- och sjuk-vård – en fallstudie av Landstinget i Kalmar
län.
Birgitta Niklasson, Jenny De Fine Licht
Styra och leda med tillit: Forskning och praktik, SOU 2018:38 - 2018 -
After Disagreement: The Role of Justifications in Creating Public Acceptance of Hard
Decisions
Jenny De Fine Licht, Peter Esaiasson
Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, August 2018 - 2018 -
Is auditing the new evaluation? Can it be? Should it
be?
Jon Pierre, B. G. Peters, Jenny De Fine Licht
International Journal of Public Sector Management - 2018 -
Preparing Students for a Future Career:
Experiences from the course “The Professional Political
Scientist”
Rasmus Broms, Jenny De Fine Licht
ECPR General Conference, Oslo, Norway - 2017 -
Same Considerations, Different Decisions: Motivations for Split-ticket Voting among Swedish Feminist Initiative
Supporters
Sofie Blombäck, Jenny De Fine Licht
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2017 -
Transparency
Jenny De Fine Licht, Daniel Naurin
Handbook of Theories of Governance - 2016 -
Myndighetschefernas syn på regeringens
styrning
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Same considerations, different decisions– exploring the motivations for split-ticket voting among Swedish Feminist Initiative
supporters
Sofie Blombäck, Jenny De Fine Licht
MPSA 73rd Annual Conference, Chicago 2015 - 2015 -
Feminist Initiative – Just Another Left Party or Something
New?
Sofie Blombäck, Jenny De Fine Licht
The Gothenburg workshop on intra-party politics in Europe" Gothenburg University, September 2015 - 2015 -
Feministiskt initiativs
sympatisörer
Jenny De Fine Licht, Sofie Blombäck
Annika Bergström, Bengt Johansson, Henrik Oscarsson & Maria Oskarson (red) Fragment. - 2015 -
Open decision-making procedures and public legitimacy. An inventory of causal
mechanism.
Jenny De Fine Licht, Daniel Naurin
Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates, ed. Jon Elster - 2015 -
Magic Wand or Pandoras Box? How transparency in decision making affects public perceptions of
legitimacy
Jenny De Fine Licht
2014 -
Transparency actually: how transparency affects public perceptions of political
decision-making
Jenny De Fine Licht
European Political Science Review - 2014 -
Policy Area as a Potential Moderator of Transparency Effects: An
Experiment
Jenny De Fine Licht
PAR. Public Administration Review - 2014 -
Priority setting in Swedish health care: Are the politicians
ready?
Per Rosén, Jenny De Fine Licht, Henrik Ohlsson
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - 2014 -
When does transparency generate legitimacy? Experimenting on a context-bound
relationship
Jenny De Fine Licht, Daniel Naurin, Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam
Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions - 2014 -
Öppna prioriteringar och extern legitimitet. En experimentell undersökning om hur människor uppfattar information om prioriteringar av
sjukvård
Jenny De Fine Licht
2011 -
Do We Really Want to Know? The potentially negative effect of transparency in decision-making on perceived
legitimacy.
Jenny De Fine Licht
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2011 -
Does transparency generate legitimacy? An experimental study of procedure acceptance of open- and closed-door
decision-making”,
Jenny De Fine Licht, Daniel Naurin, Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam
Quality of Government Working Paper Series - 2011 -
Open Procedures and Public Legitimacy. An (incomplete) inventory of conditions and
mechanisms.
Daniel Naurin, Jenny De Fine Licht
the workshop “Private and Public Debate and Voting, Collège de France, Paris 3-4 June - 2010